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  <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi (吉住渉, Yoshizumi Wataru) is a Japanese mangaka. She was born as Mari Nakai (中井 真里, Nakai Mari) on June 18, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated with a degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University.

Yoshizumi started her career as a mangaka while working as an office lady. Her debut manga was a yomikiri (short story) called &quot;Radical Romance&quot; that was published in 1984, in the summer issue of Ribon Original. She is known as a social mangaka, and is a good friend of fellow mangakas Naoko Takeuchi, Ai Yazawa, Miho Obana, and Megumi Mizusawa.

Yoshizumi currently (as of 2007) has her works published in both Ribon and Chorus.

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  <title><![CDATA[Ultra Maniac, Volume 1]]></title>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Marmalade Boy, Volume 1]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ultra Maniac, Volume 2]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ultra Maniac, Volume 4]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ultra Maniac, Volume 5]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Marmalade Boy, Volume 4]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Marmalade Boy, Volume 2]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Marmalade Boy, Volume 5]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>147</ratings_count>
  <published>2003</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Marmalade Boy, Volume 3]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Marmalade Boy, Volume 8]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Wataru Yoshizumi]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.07</average_rating>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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